2. Anti-cancer and anti-cancer: Sulfur compounds in garlic mainly act on the "start-up stage" of tumors, and prevent normal cells from transforming into cancer cells by enhancing detoxification function, interfering with carcinogen activation, enhancing immune function, blocking lipid peroxidation formation, and resisting mutation. The trace element selenium contained in garlic can kill cancer cells and reduce the incidence of cancer.
3. Adjust blood pressure: Eat more garlic, blood pressure of people with low blood pressure can increase, and blood pressure of people with high blood pressure can decrease. Eating garlic can promote the ability of gastrointestinal absorption and excretion, prevent the occurrence of "metabolic syndrome", and naturally help to reduce excessive blood pressure to normal levels.
4. Activate brain power: Garlic can enhance vitamin B 1, promote the transformation of glucose, provide energy for brain activity, and make the brain more active.
Supplementary knowledge:
Garlic should not be eaten on an empty stomach, because garlic has a certain stimulating effect on gastrointestinal mucosa, so it should be eaten after meals to reduce the irritation to gastrointestinal tract. If you suffer from gastric ulcer, acute gastroenteritis, diarrhea, cough, toothache and other diseases, you should not eat raw garlic for the time being. In addition, eating garlic in pregnant women can help improve blood circulation, reduce blood pressure (pregnancy-induced hypertension) and cholesterol levels, and also reduce fatigue during pregnancy, but it should be moderate, not excessive.
Garlic is oblate or short cone-shaped, with off-white or light brown membranous scales outside. After peeling off the scales, there are 6 ~ 10 garlic cloves, which are whorled around the flower stem, and the stem base is discoid with many fibrous roots. Every garlic clove is wrapped in a film. When the film is peeled off, white, thick and juicy scales are seen. It has a strong garlic flavor and spicy taste. It has a pungent smell and can be eaten or used for seasoning, and can also be used as medicine. Underground bulbs are divided into purple species and white species according to different skin colors. Garlic was introduced into China from the Western Regions in Qin and Han Dynasties. It is artificially bred and propagated, which has anti-cancer effect and is very popular with the public.
Six taboos for eating garlic
1, do not eat garlic when diarrhea.
This is because when patients have diarrhea, due to catching cold or eating unclean food with pathogenic bacteria, the permeability variation of local mucosal tissues in the intestine causes inflammatory infiltration of blood vessels in the intestinal wall, hypersecretion of intestinal glands, which leads to protein, water and salt metabolism disorder, so that a large number of body fluids penetrate into the intestinal cavity, bacteria and toxins stimulate the intestinal wall, accelerate intestinal peristalsis, and produce diarrhea. At this time, the whole intestinal cavity is in a state of "supersaturation". Eating garlic, a spicy substance, will further stimulate the intestinal wall, promote blood vessels to further congestion and edema, and make more tissue fluid pour into the intestine, which will aggravate diarrhea.
2. Avoid eating garlic on an empty stomach to prevent acute gastritis.
3. Avoid eating too much garlic.
Adults should eat two or three cloves of raw garlic and four or five cloves of cooked garlic every day, and children should be halved. It is useless to eat more.
4, avoid eating garlic for a long time.
Garlic has the function of hardening the intestine, which is often a cause of constipation. It can kill a large number of intestinal bacteria and cause some skin diseases.
5, avoid external use, so as not to cause chapped skin.
6. Some people have a special reaction to garlic, so if you feel uncomfortable after eating, you should avoid eating it.